Consumer Reports Continues To Savage iPhone 4

Now that Apple Inc

has

it will stop giving people a little rubber case to improve reception of the iPhone 4, Consumer Reports is back in the market with a savage report on the handset. It is as if Apple had done nothing at all to help its customers. The consumer advocacy operation reports that “Apple provided no data to detail its claim of lower-than-expected incidence of dropped calls with the iPhone 4. In his July 16 news conference announcing the free cases, Apple chairman CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone 4 dropped only about one call per hundred more than its predecessor.” The Consumer Reports view of the Steve Jobs explanation: smoke and mirrors. And Consumer Reports objects to Apple's ongoing program which requires the owner to “fix” his or her own phone by asking the electronics company's for a piece of rubber that may address the problem. “But putting the onus on any owners of a product to obtain a remedy to a design flaw is not acceptable to us. We therefore continue not to recommend the iPhone 4, and to call on Apple to provide a permanent fix for the phone's reception issues,” the group writes. To read the rest, head over to